1~When you go out you should use a natural sunscreen to protect your skin against harmful UV rays.

2~Wear sunglasses to protect your eyes and stop you from squinting against the sun. When you crease up your eyes you will get those crows feet. You can also wear a broad brim hat.

3~Keep your skin hydrated: this will make it suppler and less inclined to get damaged and wrinkle. You can do this by drinking plenty of water and using a moisturizer.

4~Avoid tanning beds: a tan can be beautiful but not from a tanning bed. These are extremely harmful to your skin and should be used very sparingly if you want to preserve your skin.

5~Lipstick: is great for your lips and will keep them soft and supple.

6~Sleep: remember to get enough sleep. This will help reduce those dark shadows under your eyes. It will also help you to maintain your overall health and that of your skin.

7~Nutrition: You are what you eat and this applies particularly to your skin. If you eat more whole grain products and less refined foods you will get more nutrition and less digestive problems. Fruits and vegetables are very important because of the vitamins and minerals that they provide. Vitamins and minerals are very important to healthy skin. Vitamin E, A and C are especially good as they reverse the aging process in your skin. Cutting out refined sugar and junk food will also improve the health of your skin.

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8~Try to use natural make up: some of the chemicals that are in make up would really make you shudder if you knew what they were and if you do not you should not be putting them on your face. Always remove your make up before you sleep to let your skin breathe and prevent the pores from clogging.

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Obviously, it’s no fun either giving or receiving these things and I should know I have been on the receiving end of gifts such as those. I started asking people for unusual gift ideas that will make my special occasions a lot more interesting. I’ve after receiving all kinds of excellent suggestions, I wrote them all down and thought these would have a good starting point the next time I’m called upon to buy a present.

For example, one of the unusual gift ideas a friend recommended was an “experience” of some sort, such as a flying lesson, beauty makeover, or wine tasting class. Who wouldn’t love a beauty make over? Get a couple of friends together and have a Spa party or something cool like that. For guys driving experiences are extremely popular as well, even I would love a chance to take a Ferrari or other luxury automobiles out for a few hours. For the more adventurous and skilled drivers  there are even Nascar, F1, or rally driving experiences for sale! When looking at unusual gifts for someone special, one doesn’t check the price tag
first. Or you will go right back to boring really fast!

I’ve got to admit that these unusual gift ideas are about 1,000 times better than anything I’ve ever given anyone in the past! The experiences I just mentioned sound sweet, but most of them are way out of my price range.  Can you just image what it would cost to drive a Ferrari? Me neither. I was actually hoping that someone would give me a few unusual gift ideas that are both fun and affordable. In this time and age money shouldn’t stop you found finding that right gift. The best gift always comes from the heart no matter what it is.

Since I now run a beauty based website with gift ideas, why not check to see what else I could find online? My first few searches led nowhere, but then I hit the jackpot and found tons of unusual gift ideas that are well within my budget. I discovered cool gadgets that can melt the ice in key locks, locate WiFi hotspots, or wireless charge for a cell phone.  If you have friends into fun things like scrapbooking, love unusual books, always has to have first edition there will be a website out there for you to find. I also learned about
how to create personalized photo books, where to buy authentic movie memorabilia, and how to order a gourmet dinner and even cook a gourmet meal if I wanted too.

There are always websites that feature experts in just about every hobby anyone could possibly be into! I came across numerous websites that feature experts offering free advice about all kinds of gift-giving occasions. They go far beyond simply listing unusual gift ideas, some even focused  on how to determine what kind of presents your friend would appreciate based on a number of different factors. Like basing a gift on your friends personality or love a color or hobby. There are all kinds of websites you can find that will
even help you build your own gift basket based on what you feel needs to be in it! How awesome is that?

All in all, I became confident that I had got enough information and resources to safely get me through the next few years of birthdays and Christmases. I tend to share what I learn with my friends now who are all looking for that one special gift that their friend has never received. With all of these unusual gift ideas at my fingertips, I’ll never be stuck giving neckties and perfume again! Unless that is what they wanted of course!

Copyright Kim Snyder Offering only the finest in beauty products, for family and friends. Visit us today at Overallbeauty.com for all your gift-giving needs!

Have you ever noticed how people with very little stress in their life look a lot younger than others of the same age?

It is not only the effect that the stress has on the lines of your face but also the way that it affects your health as a whole and that can age you considerably.

Stress can deplete you of nutrients in the body and this will have a negative affect on your skin, nails and hair.

Hair can start thinning in times of stress and fall out and often the hair loss becomes permanent. With a change in your chemical makeup due to the stress your hair can suddenly turn gray too.

Nails can become brittle and lose their condition.

Skin can become dry, flaky and other skin irritations and problems can occur, some of them causing permanent damage to the skin. That’s when you need to start using more organic skincare products such as
Intensive Therapy Face Cream
Blood pressure can rise and diets can change due to the increased need to boost energy levels. Often the choices of these energy boosters are not the best and energizing drinks or high carbohydrate foods are chosen for an instant lift. These soon turn into a weight problem where the percentage of fat in the body increases and the metabolism slows down.

If things continue along this path diabetes is something that will be an issue.

That is just a quick summary of some of the things that stress can cause to happen and it becomes very clear when reading that why stress is detrimental for anyone trying to look and stay young.

One problem quickly leads to another and before long there are more problems to contend with that increase the stress levels even more.

To stay young you need to lead a stress free life and when there is no way to avoid stress you need ways to cope with it so it has the least impact on your life.

Elvira this could be you!

Halloween need not be all creepy, scary or bloody. We are women after all, don’t you want to be beautiful, out-standing, a knock-out? Let the guys do the blood, lets go out as the stars we are.
This could be you! As easy as watching a 20 minutes from the Halloween DVD! There are more looks but this one looks like it would be most fun to be.

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With any order of 3 or more Overall Beauty Minerals you get this Halloween Makeup DVD FREE! Mineral eye shadows colors by Overall Beauty that are most recommended are Storm! Plum Pizzaz, Bronze Turquoise, Pretty Eyes Gold, Pink Magic just to name a few!

Be a good fairy this year with this makeup look.

Check out this look! Be the good fairy this year with these simple makeup tips! Found only on Halloween Makeup Collection DVD! Don’t care for blue? Try it with any color you wish and with Overall Beauty Minerals, you get choices in mineral eye shadows that you will love to use over and over again, not just for Halloween!

Pure mineral makeup is the way to go, and we got it!

Its time to step out your shell and be someone else, and truly play the part! Why not half the world is going to be out there with you right?

The style of makeup you will need to do is going to be a bit harder to do because you need more but not looking like you went at it with a paint brush.

Halloween makeup use to be tons of it and the brighter & wilder the better! It was like you wanted to be able to be seen from across the room and give a great first impression. You never know who you might be meeting at all those Costume parties, Costume Contests, Masquerade balls, Themed Night Clubs that we as grownups love to be at on Halloween right? A lot of these parties happen all year around, but Halloween just seems to bring more grownups out to play. Why not go looking like Super girl this year?

Some Halloween makeup ideas are going to take a lot of different colors to make the whole look come together. What’s different about going glam instead of ghoul is the style of course of the makeup and what you do to create it.

After you have pick out the costume you want to wear this year its time to decide how to do your makeup. Don’t bother going out and buying more makeup, you wear makeup everyday anyway right? Why buy makeup that is geared and created just for Halloween? Unless you really dig black nail polish, most colors you will need you already have. This is you we are talking about, use what you know works with you, not some cheap stuff you are not even sure who makes it, just use yours.

Take a good look at your face and decide what is your best feature and as always work with it. For our example, we are going to use farm maid. All of these ideas and tips can be found on a DVD called Halloween Collection One with more information on the how’s to step by step.

For a farm maid, or cowgirl you are going to want simple, but it still needs to be seen. So more makeup than usual will be needed but tasteful done.

Start off with your best feature you are going to want to play up, and we are going to use eyes as our example.

A farm maid is going to have a simple innocent look such as doe eyes. That look is still something you will need to plan out because you want it to last you all night under all types of lighting.

Start off with your makeup primer, or foundation all over your eyelid. This is to keep your makeup in place. Next you will need a all over color and for this look pick something really light such as a cream or white.

Smudge your base color on the lid, blending up and out towards the brow till it pretty much just fades away. A nice gray would work well for this.

Next you need to intensify that color with a darker color by adding it to the crease of the following the natural curve of the socket. Lighten under the brow line and use a round makeup brush to smudge it the two colors together starting from the outside in.

Go easy on your eyeliner and do wear mascara. If you look younger than you are, your eyes will be just right for this look. Just make sure that your  mascara doesn’t get all over under your eyes, it will take away from this look. No smoky eyes here! You need to look young and innocent so stay simple with what you are wearing as well.

Don’t forget your blush so use a pretty baby pink and place it on the apple of your cheeks for your farm maid or cowgirl look.

This is the Halloween you need to set away from looking like you are going to be playing with dead people all night and walk out into the spotlight looking totally hot! Anyone can be a ghoul but only those with the true know-how of how glamorous makeup is done can pull off the more beautiful looks. This year let it be you! Have fun this Halloween, and watch out for all those ghouls!

Copyright Kim Snyder Overallbeauty.com

Do you have any idea what it takes to use a self tanner? No? Me neither till tried it before going on boat to Mexico in February. I should of tried it out before just doing it and then getting on the ship. OMG I had spots that were really dark on my knees and ankles! Now I know there is a right way and a bad way to do it and I will have to learn it.

For starters take time to use a body scrub all over the areas you want to use the self-tanner on. If you don’t your dry winter like skin is going to cause you issues! Take your time doing it and don’t use a dark tanner if you are really fair skin. Work up to the tan or you will look like you have a fake tan and you so do not want that!